Improvement in nursery-chairs



G. A. PERLEY. Nursery-Chair.

No. 207,205- Patented Aug. 20,1878.

".FEI'ERS. PHOTU-LITHOGRAFHER, WASHING'ION D G UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

CHARLES A. PERLEY, OF TEMPLETON, ASSIGNOR TO THOMPSON, PERLEY & WAITE, OF BALDWINSVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN NURSERY-CHAIRS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 207,205, dated August 20, 1878; application filed September 1, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. PERLEY, of Templeton, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved High Chair and Crib, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to a combined high chair and crib for children. The legs of the high chair are so divided that their lower por-' tions, provided with a bed portion, may be turned upward, placing the bed portion in such relation to the chair-seat as to furnish an extension thereof, the seat and back portion together forming the crib. The divided back legs are provided with rollers, so that the crib or low chair may be rolled over the floor.

Figure 1 represents in front elevation, the combined high chair and crib employed as a high chair, and Fig. 2 a side elevation when used as a crib.

The seat a is provided with any desired or common form of back, I), and side arms. At the under side, and at each side of the seat, are front and back legs, 0 (I, connected by suitable rounds e, and the front legs have before them a footboard, f. The legs 0 d are of such length as to elevate the seat above the floor sufficiently for a low chair.

The legs 0 d form continuations of the legs 0 d, as in Fig. 1, when it is desired to use a high chair, and at such time the legs (I d are held in line by means of suitable locking devices, hooks g, or equivalents.

The legs 0 c are hinged together at h, and legs d d are provided with rollers i j, so that when in the position shown in Fig. 2, or when the chair is converted into a crib, or a table and low chair, it may be rolled over the floor. Between the legs 0 d are cross-pieces 1, provided with slats m, so that when the parts are as in full lines, Fig. 2, the slats m and seat a will, together, form a surface for the crib bottom. The legs 0 01 also carry between them a table or shelf, n,pivoted at p, and which, when a crib is desired, is turned outward, as in Fig. 2.

The side arms of the chair-seat and the rounds 7' form the crib sides.

If it is desired to use a low chair and table for the child, then the table or shelf a will be turned into the position designated in Fig. 2,

dotted lines. To permit the child to place its feet on the foot-board, one or two of the slats nearest the seat a are held in a hinged frame, 8, which, at such time, may be turned up, as in dotted lines, Fig. 1.

I claim 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a high chair provided with separable movable leg portions 0 cl, having connected with such movable leg portions a portion, 1 m, and folding piece 8, to assist in the formation of a crib bottom, and a table or shelf, to enable the high chair to be converted into a crib or table and low chair, at will, substantially as set forth.

2. The lower portions, 0 d, of the legs of a high chair hinged to the front-leg portions 0, which are fixed to the seat, and the seat a, in combination with a crib-forming portion, l m s, placed between the legs 0 d at a point distant from the hinge h, such as to place the cribforming portion substantially on the level of the seat when the portions 0 d are overturned, substantially asand for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES A. PERLEY.

Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, W. J. PRATT. 

